Improvement in wagon-axles



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\ 1i. -MCMANUs 0E ELLENBURG CENTRE, NEW YORK.

-Letters Patent No. 87,580, dated March 9, 1869; antedated FebMta/ry 27, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT I N' WAGON-AXLES.

The Schedule referred to in ,these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom it may concern: l i

Be it known that I, F. MCMANUS, of'Ellenburg Oe'ntre, in the county of Clinton, and State of New York, have invented anew and useful improvement in Fastening Nuts on Wooden Wagon-Axles5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,v

and exact descriptionr thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

l My invention relates to an improvement` in the method of constructing and applying the nuts of Wooden wagon-axles, that are used for holding the wheels on the same; and o 'Y It consists in extending the nut into the hub as deep as the outer box ofthe hub, and screwing it onto the axle, with a thread cut in the direction that will not be nnscrewed by the action of the hub, and turning it down onthe outside, to lit into the said box, and form the outer bearings of the axle within the hub, as will be more fully described on reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein a sectional view of a hub and nut are shown.A

A represents the axle.

` B, the hub.

C and C', the metal boxes, fitted into the hub in the usual manner. l l

D, the nut, turned to t the box C', so as to constitute a bearing, upon which the said box turns, the thread being so formed on the axle and the)v nut, that any tendency of the saine to turn, by reason of the friction of the box 011 the nut, will be in the direction to tighten it on the axle. The said nut has a ange, i

VV-screwed' upon the axle A within the metal box C', in themanner and for the purposes herein set forth and described. v

F, MCMAN L'S. Witnesses: HIRAM VANARANAM, MARTIN BoURNs. 

